Motivational Quotes

Faith

Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.

- Gandhi, Mahatma

Best Quotes about Faith

As the essence of courage is to stake one's life on a possibility, so the essence of faith is to believe that the possibility exists.

Salter, William

Be a sinner and sin strongly, but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ.

Luther, Martin

What is faith but a kind of betting or speculation after all? It should be, I bet that my Redeemer liveth.

Butler, Samuel

Our faith is faith in someone else's faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.

James, William

Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

The mysteries of faith are degraded if they are made into an object of affirmation and negation, when in reality they should be an object of contemplation.

Weil, Simone

As our faith increases, so does our ability to obey.

A person consists of his faith. Whatever is his faith, even so is he.

Proverb, Indian

Faith is a reasoning trust, a trust which reckons thoughtfully and confidently upon the trustworthiness of God.

Stott, John R.

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All things are possible to him who believes. [Mark 9:23]

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Do you know how to digest your food? Do you know how to fill your lungs with air? Do you know how to establish, regulate and direct the metabolism of your body -- the assimilation of foodstuff so that it builds muscles, bones and flesh? No, you don't know how consciously, but there is a wisdom within you that does know.

Curtis, Donald

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That's the thing about faith. If you don't have it you can't understand it. And if you do, no explanation is necessary

Nerys, Major Kira

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Attempt something so impossible that unless God is in it, it's doomed to failure.

Haggai, John

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Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.

Channing, William Ellery

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You should not believe your conscience and your feelings more than the word which the Lord who receives sinners preaches to you.

Luther, Martin

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Reason is our soul's left hand, faith her right, by these we reach divinity.

Donne, John

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Every Age has its own peculiar faith. Any attempt to translate into facts the mission of one Age with the machinery of another, can only end in an indefinite series of abortive efforts. Defeated by the utter want of proportion between the means and the end, such attempts might produce martyrs, but never lead to victory.

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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Faith is an excitement and an enthusiasm: it is a condition of intellectual magnificence to which we must cling as to a treasure, and not squander on our way through life in the small coin of empty words, or in exact and priggish argument.

Sand, George

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Faith is: dead to doubts, dumb to discouragements, blind to impossibilities.

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Faith is not contrary to reason

Eddy, Sherwood

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We seldom lose our faith by a blow out, usually is just a slow leak.

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If you desire faith, then you have faith enough.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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A faith that hasn't been tested can't be trusted.

Rogers, Adrian

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Faith is the heroism of the intellect.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others.

Fromm, Erich

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All the strength and force of man comes from his faith in things unseen. He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.

Clarke, James Freeman

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Do you sometimes think, if I could just see Christ. If I could meet him. If I could talk to him personally, then this life would be easier. But you have seen him. You have met him. You have talked to him personally. This knowledge, believed in faith, can make life easier.

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If you have abandoned one faith, do not abandon all faith. There is always an alternative to the faith we lose. Or is it the same faith under another mask?

Greene, Graham

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What we wish, that we readily believe.

Demosthenes

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Faith is the refusal to panic.

Lloyd-Jones, David Martyn

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Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.

Gibran, Kahlil

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He wears his faith but as the fashion of his hat.

William Shakespeare

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You don't decide to build a church because you have money in the bank. You build because God says this is what I should do. Faith is the supplier of things hoped for and the evidence of things not seen.

Bakker, Jim

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Faith is building on what you know is here, so you can reach what you know is there.

Hightower, Cullen

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Out of suffering comes the serious mind; out of salvation, the grateful heart; out of endurance, fortitude; out of deliverance faith.

Ruskin, John

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My faith is the grand drama of my life. I'm a believer, so I sing words of God to those who have no faith. I give bird songs to those who dwell in cities and have never heard them, make rhythms for those who know only military marches or jazz, and paint colors for those who see none.

Messiaen, Olivier

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At the beginning of every act of faith, there is often a seed of fear. For great acts of faith are seldom born out of calm calculation.

Lucado, Max L.

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Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch, which ought to be applied as sparingly as possible.

Forster, Edward M.

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Faith is, at one and the same time, absolutely necessary and altogether impossible.

Stanislaw Lem

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Faith is a living, daring confidence in God's grace, so sure and certain that a man could stake his life on it a thousand times.

Luther, Martin

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Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. You must be able to sustain yourself against staggering blows. There is no code of conduct to help beginners. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go much further than people with vastly superior talent.

Loren, Sophia

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There is no great future for any people whose faith has burned out.

Jones, Rufus M.

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If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.

William Hazlitt

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Faith certainly tells us what the senses do not, but not the contrary of what they see; it is above, not against them.

Pascal, Blaise

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The amplest knowledge has the largest faith. Ignorance is always incredulous.

Willmott, Robert Eldridge

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Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. [Hebrews 11:1]

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I see heaven's glories shine and faith shines equal...

Bronte, Emily

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It is a masterpiece of the devil to make us believe that children cannot understand religion. Would Christ have made a child the standard of faith if He had known that it was not capable of understanding His words?

Moody, Dwight L.

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Faith must trample under foot all reason, sense, and understanding.

Luther, Martin

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The beginning of anxiety is the end of faith, and the beginning of true faith is the end of anxiety.

Mueller, George E.